Christian Lindke

Greg Gorden: Designing Games Beyond the d20 Greg Gorden: Designer Extraordinaire

I really like Step-Die mechanics in role playing games and Greg Gorden worked on some of the best Die-Step systems.

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[Retro Review] Star Frontiers (1982): A Look Back at a Classic SF RPG This post includes a free micro-rpg at the bottom based on Star Frontiers.

I've got some thoughts on the classic Star Frontiers role playing game.

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Which Way Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd? Horror or Whimsy? [Book Review] Gothic Horror, Whedonesque, or Horror Comedy?

At last, I have reviewed Heir of Strahd by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social

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I am checking it out.

Geekside Film Chat: Horror Movies and Kids Today Luke and I were supposed to talk for 30 minutes or so about an article he recently read by a younger film critic.

Wanna listen to me talk about horror movies, the kids today, the media landscape, and a ton of tangents inspired by host @christianlindke.bsky.social? For about 80 minutes? Of course you do: www.geekeratimedia.com/cp/176668291

I love D&D and I still run 4e, 2e, and 5e.

Nick Drage liked the post, so I'll share a current favorite game with Modern Age from Green Ronin. I absolutely love this system.

Based on the number of new game related Kickstarters that just launched, it must be GenCon time.

Independent RPG Month 2025: Week One Recommendations It's Independent RPG Month! Here are seven games you should check out.

It's Independent RPG Month!

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I think that this could be a distinct possibility. Jonathan! Jonathan!

Pokémon Jr. -- An Underappreciated Gem Strange Licensed Role Playing Games Selection #1

Are there any other fans of the Pokémon Jr. Role Playing Game out there?

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How excited am I that @greenroninpub.bsky.social's new book Modern AGE: Powers is out?

VERY.

Weekly Geekly Rundown for May 2, 2025 I’ve mentioned a couple of times that one of the ways I paid my way through undergraduate education was as a 21/Craps dealer in a small Reno casino.

New Weekly Geekly Rundown. I discuss the Bingo Paradox, highlight two reviews by @lytrules.bsky.social, recommend Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, share some music and a movie recommendation, and share links to other Substacks. It's a ton of fun.

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We did do a character creation session, but I never actually ran the game. The characters were too similar and the players wanted to play the setting with a different system.

10 games I have GMed. One is a lie. Guess which one.
1: Tunnels & Trolls
2: Rifts
3: DC Heroes
4: Vampire: The Masquerade
5: Dungeon Crawl Classics
6: Savage Worlds
7: Cyborg Commando
8: Middle Earth Role Play
9: Paranoia
10: Indiana Jones the Role Playing Game

This is a pretty great list and I was happy to be able to contribute in any way in the discussion. There are a lot of great Cult films and this list is a great starting point.

Can you guess which movie I recommended?

Great era of the magazine. The content was so inspirational to me and my friends.

It would have been easy for this movie, with a roller skate based sport, to wander into camp. Instead, it became a classic that holds up today.

A reminder that the fabulous TwoMorrows Publishing was hit pretty hard by the Diamond bankruptcy and are having a sale, though you could also buy any of the other non-sale books too. Their comic history work is essential, like the Comic Book Chronicles or DC Implosion. twomorrows.com/index.php?ma...

Weekly Geekly Rundown for January 10, 2025 Fires and Feeling Out of Sorts

My latest Weekly Geekly is filled with sorrow over the recent California Fires and the usual rundown of interesting stuff.

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The Forever Pillars remind me of Phase IV.

Hey @vistagmedia.bsky.social, that's a great list. Thanks for putting it together.

Jack (King) Kirby worked on some of the best Saturday Morning Cartoons

What's a prop that I NEVER expected to see featured in a Hallmark Christmas Movie?

SHI: Black, White, & Red

And yet, there it is right in the middle of 2017's Sharing Christmas.

Gaming Expectations: Playing Optimally Responding to Things We Think About Games Article no. 3

One of the things we forget from time to time is that people play games for different reasons. We talk a lot about storytelling in roleplaying games, but for some players the mechanics themselves are the fun part. We can learn from those players to become better storytellers.

I just published by Christmas themed Mork Borg inspired adventure.

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Geekerati Last Minute Holiday Recommendations Product Recommendations from Christian and Readers

Some of my readers and I have some gift recommendations for you. These are a little off the beaten path.

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While it's interesting to discuss the various peaks, the fact that these turn out to be relatively normal distributions is kind of the more interesting story to me.

Post-Horror Post-Horror

Of course now you've got me breaking out of my Amicus/Hammer/Corman obsession of late and looking up books on 2010s horror like this one.

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How John Krasinski's newfound love for horror led to defying expectations with 'A Quiet Place' When John Krasinski took to the stage after the world premiere of his movie “A Quiet Place” last month at the South by Southwest Film Festival, he seemed startled and surprised not only by the intensi...

John Krasinski used it (to some scandal) in 2018, Bilge Ibiri wrote about it a lot in Vulture under a slightly different term (art horror) that he got from David Edelstein. It eventually caught on with David Ehrlich at IndieWire.

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